INDEX. 827 



N. 



Page. 



National Academy of Sciences, resolution to provide accommodations for xii 



cabinet of curiositiea 81 



National Museum, accessions of the year 100 



aid from other museums 95 



aid of manufacturing and commercial firms 100 



bibliography of museum work HI 



building 10 



building commission, report of x, 173 



Bulletin, No. 21 27 



chemical laboratory completed 11 



details of administration 97 



distribution of books and specimens 34 



effects of Centennial Exhibition 83 



electrical service of 12 



experiments in methods of arrangement 94 



fire-proof building, appropriation for 170 



foods 100 



increase of 35 



library 95 



list of contributors to, in 1881 131 



list of officers of Ill 



materia medica 99 



medicinal collections of 36 



minerals, arrangement of 35 



outline of a scheme of Museum classification 89 



periods in the history of 81 



photographic laboratory 11 



plan of organization of 89 



proceedings, vol. iii 27 



publications of 98 



repairs to ceilings of 10, 11 



report of Assistant Director 81 



report of Professor Baird on 35 



report of the architects 177 



supplementary steam furnace introduced 11 



telephonic service of 12 



tiling for floors of 10 



work of the preparators 96 



Natural resources illustrated in Museum 90, 92 



Naval Observatory, repayment of freight by 183, 184 



Nebula} 191 



Necrology 43 



Nelson, Dr. Wilford, collections received from 104 



Nelson, E. W., collections made by , 102 



New Brunswick, sculptured stone found in St. George 665 



New River mouuds, Berrien County, Georgia 631 



New York, antiquities of Onondaga and adjoining counties 647 



Cayuga County, antiquities of 650 



Chautauqua County 643 



Madison County, autiquities of 651 



Onondaga Count j', antiquities of 647,651 



Oswego County, antiiiuities of 647 



perforated tablet of stone from 658 



